# I did not know this person was in THAT... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657 "2011-10-05T03:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/41 "2011-10-06T18:27:23Z")
A surprising one I noticed recently was a very young Lady Gaga in an episode of _The Sopranos_ (_The Telltale Moozadel_) as a high school friend of A.J.'s who helps vandalize the school pool. I don’t think she has a line but she’s recognizable. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/42 "2011-10-06T18:39:06Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > **Sampiro** , Lloyd and DeVito are who I was thinking of. And there was another guy who seems to be in every Milos Forman movie, but always in small parts. He was also in a ST:TNG episode, I think in the 1st season. It’s the one where weapons “learned”, much like the Borg. “Arsenal of Freedom” - Vincent Schiavelli ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/43 "2011-10-06T18:46:36Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > A surprising one I noticed recently was a very young Lady Gaga in an episode of _The Sopranos_ (_The Telltale Moozadel_) as a high school friend of A.J.'s who helps vandalize the school pool. I don’t think she has a line but she’s recognizable. [I found the clip.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrainCFg9BU) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/44 "2011-10-06T18:54:39Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > To her credit, he was very young and he didn’t play a bad guy. Did she see him in Dune? > > **Sampiro** , Lloyd and DeVito are who I was thinking of. And there was another guy who seems to be in every Milos Forman movie, but always in small parts. He was also in a ST:TNG episode, I think in the 1st season. It’s the one where weapons “learned”, much like the Borg. [Vincent Schiavelli](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001704/) ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/45 "2011-10-06T19:12:54Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Viggo Mortensen in “Witness” (1985 film). Also as the wheelchair bound former gangster in “Carlito’s Way” Also just recently saw Famke Jansen in an old episode of Star Trek the Next Generation… playing a psychic ..opposite Professor X–I mean Captain Picard. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/46 "2011-10-06T19:20:37Z")
On an old 1950’s TV show _The Millionaire_, DeForest Kelley plays a doctor. At one point he says “I’m a doctor, not a politician”. Here’s a direct link to the scene where he says it. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHpgwLYbbfg) ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/47 "2011-10-06T19:23:04Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > To her credit, he was very young and he didn’t play a bad guy. Did she see him in Dune? > > **Sampiro** , Lloyd and DeVito are who I was thinking of. And there was another guy who seems to be in every Milos Forman movie, but always in small parts. He was also in a ST:TNG episode, I think in the 1st season. It’s the one where weapons “learned”, much like the Borg. Did we establish from this post that Brad Dourif was _not_ on _Taxi_? I just looked that up on IMDB 'cause I’m a huge Dourif fan and I loved _Taxi_ back in the day and I couldn’t figure out when/where/how/why. Dourif is not listed among the cast for any season… And then I cross-checked Dourif’s page and he has no credit for a _Taxi_ role. ETA: Nevermind. I mis-read **TDN** ’s post and thought it was implying that Dourif had been on Taxi. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/48 "2011-10-06T20:29:33Z")
There’s a cute little movie in 2005 starring Bow Wow, “Roll, Bounce”, about a big rollerskate-off at a rink, with 70’s music. Paris Hilton can be seen hanging with the rival skate group at the competition. No lines, though. I think she and Bow Wow were friends at some point, only reason I can think she was in it. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/49 "2011-10-06T20:35:35Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Arsenal of Freedom” - Vincent Schiavelli Yes, shortly after posting I looked him up. That guy has been in a lot of stuff! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/50 "2011-10-06T20:36:52Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > ETA: Nevermind. I mis-read **TDN** ’s post and thought it was implying that Dourif had been on Taxi. Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to Lloyd and DeVito, and figured that I was the last person on the planet to not know this. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/51 "2011-10-06T21:16:15Z")
> [@JCorre](#): > > I recently re-watched “Ghandi” and laughed as I recognized Daniel Day-Lewis as one of the street thugs that tried to harass Ghandi in South Africa in the beginning of the film. Gandhi. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/52 "2011-10-06T21:33:52Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Viggo Mortensen in “Witness” (1985 film). > [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > Also as the wheelchair bound former gangster in “Carlito’s Way” He was also in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, whereas the TCM The Next Generation/Return of the TCM whatever you wanna call it had Renee Zellwinger and Matthew McCongahey (and I’m sure I’ve spelled at least one of those names wrong, but whatever). Phil from Modern Family played the rich asshole in the Dawn of the Dead reimagining. Cliff Clavin from Cheers had bit parts in Empire Strikes Back and Superman 2. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/53 "2011-10-06T22:26:10Z")
Watched _Top Gun_ this past week (why? Because it was on TV!) and in the graduation scene Sundown and Chipper ask each other where Maverick is and for the first time in several watchings of this movie my brain goes “hey, wait, I know that guy!” when I look at Chipper. It’s [Adrian Pasdar](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0664499/). Blew my mind. Totally justified watching that movie again…as my husband said “see, you can _still_ get something out of _Top Gun_ after all this time!” ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/54 "2011-10-06T23:04:12Z")
A few years back, I was watching reruns of _The Magician,_ Bill Bixby’s early 1970s TV series, and was surprised to see a very young Mark Hamill in one episode. And I recently watched an episode of the Adam West _Batman_ series, and was startled by Rob Reiner in a bit part. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/55 "2011-10-07T02:44:34Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > And I recently watched an episode of the Adam West _Batman_ series, and was startled by Rob Reiner in a bit part. Character actor Bruno Kirby (who played Carrie Fischer’s b.f. in “When Harry Met Sally”) remarked once on “the David Letterman Show” that Reiner has held very popular industry parties in which all the attendees were requested to bring a video clip of the most embarrassing acting work they’ve ever done. Reiner himself usually submits a clip of himself on “F Troop” playing a hippie folksinger. Christina Kendricks, most famous for playing Joan Holloway-Harris on “Mad Men”, also appeared on Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” as the recurring character “Saffron” - a con artist who duped Mal Reynolds into believing he’d married her in a blackout. In the famous finale of “Newhart,” Larry, Darryl & Darryl all get wives. One of the wives is played by Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe on “Friends.”) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/56 "2011-10-07T03:39:39Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I was watching _Big Trouble in Little China_ the other night. > [@Grestarian](#): > > Great movie! I keep telling my wife I’m going to eventually look like David Lo Pan 😃 [Which](http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii214/KnifeToTheSoul/Lo-pan2.jpg) [version?](http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/34626/1145927-lopan_large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/57 "2011-10-07T11:06:23Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Christina Kendricks, most famous for playing Joan Holloway-Harris on “Mad Men”, also appeared on Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” as the recurring character “Saffron” - a con artist who duped Mal Reynolds into believing he’d married her in a blackout. Wow, I’m out of touch with television. I still think of her as “Saffron from Firefly who now shows up on that Mad Men show.” But then, I stopped watching TV on TV years ago. Watching it on DVD or the computer is much more flexible. Also, she was only “Saffron” the first time. The quote marks for the name are very appropriate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/58 "2011-10-07T11:09:22Z")
Nathan Fillion, most famous, of course, for playing Captain Hammer in Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog (oh, and also he is in a cop show and he used to be in a western or a sci-fi show or some such…), was in Saving Private Ryan, where he played Private Ryan. No, not the Matt Damon one, the _first_ Private Ryan they run into, who has an emotional breakdown thanks to some mistaken identity.😃 ---
**Author:** ![thebenn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@thebenn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thebenn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/59 "2011-10-07T12:35:12Z")
John Ratzenberger, who played Cliff Claven on _Cheers_, had a very, very small speaking part in _The Empire Strikes Back_ He was one of the Rebel commanders on Hoth. You might miss him because he is clean-shaven in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657/60 "2011-10-07T12:44:35Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > The rumor has persisted that George Reeves had a fairy sizable part in _From Here to Eternity_ as the noncom who tells Burt Lancaster that Deborah Kerr’s character had slept around. Reeves had already appeared in _The Adventures of Superman_, and supposedly audiences recognized him and his part was edited down to basically just his one crucial line. However, the movie’s director and screenwriter insist that all of Reeve’s scenes in the movie were as written. > > Two other bit players you might recognize in the film are Jack Warden and Claude Akins. Of course George Reeves was one of the Tarleton twins in the opening scene of “Gone With the wind”. And all New Yorkers like myself who saw this film for the first time in the 1960s instantly yelled “Million Dollar Movie” when the theme song started. Does Robert Blake as the boy who sells Bogart a winning lottery ticket in “treasure of the Sierra Madre” count? He was one of the little rascals earlier [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-did-not-know-this-person-was-in-that/598657.md?page=4)